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To put it bluntly, Google has assembled the greatest collection of computer science talent in the world. Similarly Amazon has a multi-year lead in deliverin
by kylec 14y ago
To put it bluntly, Google has assembled the greatest collection of computer
science talent in the world. Similarly Amazon has a multi-year lead in delivering
compute power by the drop, with which it’s happy to provide to you with the
single-digit gross margins of a successful retailer. Your IT organization simply
doesn’t rate at this level.
Maybe not, but it doesn't need to. Creating, maintaining, and fixing giant cloud services are incredibly hard problems. I'd even venture to say that the ratio of difficulty in maintaining something like AWS compared to managing a handful of servers is greater than the ratio of technical skill of the ops team at Amazon to the average IT team. This is not to disparage the skill of the AWS team but to highlight the orders of magnitude in the difficulty of the tasks.
- rbanffy 14y agoThe point to consider is whether your IT staff can beat their uptime with your own servers.
- rdl 14y agoRight. As long as you have moderately competent people and reasonable resources, and are trying to solve the relatively simple problem of a small to medium sized site, you should come out ahead of smarter people with more resources (but less per-user budget) trying to solve vastly harder problems.